How to build an Autonomous UAV for Long Range FPV & Autonomous Missions - Flying Wing 

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Absolutely crazy what can be achieved, with just some foam, electronics and imagination..bravo brother 👏🏽👌🏾

👍🏾 like a younger, cooler version of me. I wish back in the 80s there was an aviation role model like you. Kudos

DUDE, I love your videos, the results you get with stuff anyone can afford and build is amazing. Once I find some time I wanna build stuff like this. KEEP UP THE FANTASTIC WORK I LOVE IT

Well done young man I like your style. These are simple designs built out of affordable materials and easily sourced electronics. I'm looking forward to seeing just what this model and your future designs are capable of.

You builds get better and better, keep doing a great job

Thank you for the amazing patient detail. I've always thought a wing was the right way to do it.

Love this design. One if my favourite foam board wings is the FT Spear. Your plane takes that and builds on it. Weaknesses of the Spear are it won't take a large battery and air to the prop is dirty with the blunt back end. You've addressed both those issues. Moving that motor back allows larger batteries and the tapered back end really helps with clean air. You can hear in your video how quiet it is for a pusher. I found the Spear flies better with the larger center vertical stablizers. Less yawing around. Would be interesting to try that on your plane. Regardless, you've built a nice looking wing. Docile and stable.

Excellent job! Excellent explanation of construction steps. You make it look so easy. Thank you.

Very cool! I love the efficiency of flying wings.

Nice! Comment for algorithm but dammit this video deserves it. Very well done. Especially the Air to air shots look so professionel!

Great tutorial, thank you for sharing I really appreciate it. This will probably be the first plane I build when I switch to wings here pretty soon, awesome 👍

Thank you very much for all the details.

Way to go! That design flies really well.

Great work on this design! Thanks for sharing, your explaination and details really make a build like this feel approachable for a noob. Excited to see the future of this project!

Amazing work as always, really like this build.

really outdid yourself with this one, great job!

Impressive build. Congrats!

Nice build and great explanation.

Great design and fabulous job communicating it! Thanks for sharing.

great job - I'm really enamored by this one - I'm going to building one of these soon. Thank you!

Kudos to you sir such a beautiful piece of technology and design is awesome

Nice, simple , easy to made and it can fly 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Man, this is insanely great. I've never built a drone before, and I've just gotten really interested in FPV after seeing what the Ukrainians have done with drones to fight Putin and rock his oil industry. My dad used to build RC planes, he was an engineer. I'm a computer science student, and I love flight sims. But an autonomous drone? Very cool. Subbed you, you rule, man.

You're absolutely Genius 🤔

Excellent build video thanks for uploading .👍

Good flying demonstration

VERY impressive. Well done!

Omg that is awsome! great build

great work. very inspiring.

Wow. I love your channel. I would like to build a long range FPV plane one day.

First, another awesome vid; many thanks and keep up the great work! Second, mainly inspired by you I’m building a long range rc plane as well. Due to this vid I stopped testing my previous build and started on a wing as well. I’ve been going back and forth on the design because I really like larger diameter prop (less noise, greater efficiency), but especially with a wing now, I’m afraid I’ll kill the prop on every landing. Your ‘hand toss handle’ (as seen in your latest vid) seems to have saving props as a welcome ‘side effect’. But drag and nose down pitch tendency were holding me back. Guess i should ignore that as you’ve demonstrated those impressive results!

Great flying footage man!

Awesome! Thanks for all the details.

Thank you so much for sharing this

Great build!

Fantastic work! Subscribed!

Great build. I'm sure the hand launch contraption also adds to lateral stability due to acting like a tail.

Great work!

Great design! I am going to try to built a similar plane.

Excellent peace of work, a great accomplishment, all the best and keep it up..

Your skill are amazing

Cool wing!

Excellent video! Thanks for sharing.

Nice! I like wings because they’re so efficient but I always end up going back to T or V tail. Maybe I just haven’t flown a truly stable wing yet.i just might copy this one! Looks great

SPLENDID MAESTRO

great video!

Super cool!

Yessir I’m sure this will fly much longer than the conventional long range planes

I love the music💯✊🏿

Bro make a VTOL And also include basic wiring and config too!! Hats off to you Amazing content.

Nice work

Thank you!

Well done videos as always. I like your videos because they are informative, straightforward, and lack the extra fluff that is just not required. Quick tip for future videos- your discussing the mAhr figure is misleading to those who probably don't know better, which is likely +95% of your viewership. YES, you CAN, as you do, use this number BEGIN to discuss endurance with certain size batteries, but there are two problems with that- that discussion is NOT to be confused with actual efficiency of flight, and- your mAhr/km will change dramatically given the weight of the battery in UAV's like this, as the weight of the batteries are a very significant % of the total. Anyhow, efficiency calculations require power being consumed, not current, and you also need either good distance or time and velocity information as well as the total weight of the UAV. There is enough information here (when combined with one simple guess/rounding number) to calculate power a few ways. I arrived at 62.6 and 63.6 average watts. I don't know the weight of this UAV, but given the 83.7 Seconds average time to cover 1km, you used 5,281 Joules per km. Joules and Weight - NOW you can start to discuss true aerodynamic efficiency. Lastly, there are ALL KINDS of Aerodynamic efficiency calculations to make, so it is always good to provide enough information so that people can understand your figures, and use them to compare to others. For example, in package delivery, they only thing they really want to know the total energy per kg*km. In other areas, like surveillance, duration is paramount, and many hours are expected, and you talk about total energy per hour given a certain payload and speed... etc., etc. Anyhow, this is just a technicality compared to all you do, keep up the good work.

Superb !!!

First! I haven't even finished watching and I know I'm going to try and build this.

Happy new year

Great build! You could make it lighter by cutting out some parts of those fill in pieces.

A very impressive design. It reminds me somewhat of blended wing designs. Evolving the fuselage pod to be more 'blended' aerodynamically may offer additional efficiencies. A possible future experiment, once have learnt how well and optimized the Silver Heron's performance. Thanks for sharing and providing inspiration to many. ♥😎👍

Another great vid. Could you do one just on how to set up the electronics ? Cheers.

you get my like because , kid can build this

Bravo.perfect

Thanks for sharing. Do you have a detailed BOM list?

Great work! If possible, could you tell us how you set up the software for flight computer? Im curios about the challenges with a delta wing.

When you glue in the large square "filler" sections...could you hollow then squares out to reduce the weight..even if it's a few grams? Very very cool build and the thing just looks like it wants to fly! Subbed! Keep em coming!!!!

Do note that 90-degree angles are never the best when it comes to aerodynamic design. 👍

love it and your work, is it possible to cover the foam board in dry carbon fiber + epoxy?

Reminds me of the reptile S800 wing. Built like a Tank, and cheap as hell.

this is awesome

Where I should put the carbon fiber spar ? As I have 1m long spar and I dont want to cut it, can I put it way back at the end, or does it have to be at CG?

Saludos, magnífica ala con fácil construcción. Así aprendimos con el colega de ExperimentalAirlines

super sick

Beautiful! I understand that Depron is a very nice material to work with, but I really want you to start doing carbon fiber planes! It's so easy and it's so so so much stronger!

dont put gps inside in the payload bay instead keep it outside so that it can have more satellites and have more stability and accuracy and by the way nice plane 👍

I would love more detailed material specification

Awesome! You should sell some kits! What is the max theoretical (no head or tail wind) range in km of this drone equiped as shown? Equiped with additional battery and more performant prop?

COOL

Very cool, what kind of average speed can it maintain at the 3ah throttle?

Awesome build! One question, where can I get motor mounts like yours?

I'm about to build this very interesting wing, as I've never built a foambord wing before. Just a couple of questions, relex, throws and prop size please

Thank you for this very informative video, quick question. Where would the best place online or in person to get 5mm XPS foam already cut for this purpose? All of the places in the USA on the East Coast only have the pink 1/2in insulation boards and i cant find any good online places to get boards that are already cut to the depth i need. I dont mind having to shave down a huge insulation board but the boards you use in the video make so much more sense than making my room into a huge mess.

Two missing things the test flight showed but your build video did not. Aileron servo hook up for elevon control, and camera. Pretty critical points!!

Looks like you using new foam type ! What isn’t called ?

Hi! Did you use just normal clear hot glue or was that something special for the foam board?

This is awesome, but I have some questions. Did you have to register this? How much does it weigh? Do you have Part 107? Has the FAA knocked on your door?

Congratulations, I truly enjoyed it, keep going

At 6:02, That three in one foams put together used for the wings, how many inches in length and width? Thank you. I am working on buying the material to be put together, but I have to write and draw the plan. Thank you.

Is there a stl file for this? I would love to try this with filament.

Nice Build, but please heat shrink the solder joints of your XT60!

Good evening from nigeria Ive been following you for a while now and its my first time commenting. I'ld like to make your projects but i dont have acess to the materials

Another great video. ? I’ve looked all over for videos of how to flash the flight controller. And I have found none. I just built my first drone and I’m using the speedybee f405 v3 on a 7 inch drone. My receiver is a coolrc flysky fs-x6b and my transmitter is a flysky fs i6x. Please help I don’t know where to find the info that it’s asking for

Cool wing and build video. Thanks for sharing it. Just a quick question. What is the motor you used on the wing in the video? At 19:33 there is a clear picture of the motor, but it doesn't look like a Racerstar 3536 which is listed in the description. From your flight, it seems like it is a very efficient motor.

U can also meak beautiful paintings in the body❤❤❤❤❤

Congratulations ! Is it possible to fly missions without a MAV Link system ?

Will there be a video about lion batteries?

That plastic glue doesnt melt the foam ? is there any heat adjustment needed to be performed on the glue gun ?

Great build, i saw your other uav builds too but i cant decide what to build i want to make the most efficent so it goes far, the fastest and easyest to make, can you tell me (send me the video link) thanks you

Great video, I really want to get into this, I would buy all the electronics you have listed but I have no idea where to start, can you help me?

i often see ppl make these type of drones, but i never see anyone make anything with a gyroscope camera that can zoom in like for example a DJI drone will you make a video of this? or do you happen to have any tips for someone who wants to make a UAV with gimbal camera?

Where were these flights filmed? Looks alot like the coastal towns here in Texas.